shear
Example Sentences
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“You can shear a sheep for life, but you can only slaughter it once” goes an old saying that sportsbooks seem to have heeded.
Inside were fabrics, sewing shears, a pincushion of needles, and several spools of thread.
From Literature
Instead the final four candidates for the job were a range of eager submissives, each straining to appear enthusiastic to pick up the pruning shears and start cutting rates by the bunch:
Most of the trees around them were still upright, but their tops had been sheared off in the blast.
From Literature
Even though the inner core is solid, it behaves like a softened metal, slowing seismic shear waves and displaying a Poisson's ratio more similar to butter than to steel.
From Science Daily
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
